定齋 柳致明 硏究(1)

Abstract

As author's knowledge, until now there is no attempt on shedding light on the life of JungJae Ryu Chi-Myeong (定齋 柳致明, 1777-1861) and his academic activities. In this study, in order to investigate JungJae Ryu Chi-Myeong, his lifetime was divided into four stages from the chronology and activities of his life and then his family tree was confirmed (Chapter II). In chapter III, the pedigree for his scholarly lineage was listed by tracing the private and public roots of his study. In chapter IV, his academic tendency was examined from the collection of his works so called JungJae-Sunsaeng-Moonjip 『a collection of JungJae(定齋)'s works』, in which his academic and ideological accomplishments were well revealed, and another academic writings. The main purpose of this research is to investigate the basis for the formation of JungJae Ryu Chi-Myeong's study, his ideological status within Toegye’s School and his role as a scholar studying on moral philosophy(道學) and the reestablishment of Toegye’s School in the late Choson Dynasty. Many scholars of JungJae's family have succeeded T'oegye's study, entered to DaeSan(大山) Lee Sang-Jeong(李象靖)'s ‘Ho-mun(湖門)’ and tied blood relationship by marriage with DaeSan's family, resulting in playing a key role in succession of ‘Ho-hak(湖學)’. Accordingly, it is natural that since the lineage study of JungJae's familiy was based on T'oeGye's and DaeSan's studies and thoughts, he spent about 30 years in early years of his life in studying under its influence. Especially, it is noted that at that time he studied under a renowned scholar such as Ryu Jang-Won(柳長源) and Nam Han-Jo(南漢朝) who were also scholastic successors of DaeSan's studies. From the middle of thirties of his life to late years, he served as a government officer and also he focused on communicating with the study and thought of Neo-Confucianism(性理學) through the educations, decorum, writings, the collections of works, books so on. This represents well JungJae's academic position and role at that contemporary time. JungJae's academic origin within Toegye's school was positioned in the course of regional evolution starting from T'oeGye and it never get out this boundary as lineage study, blood relationship and maste-pupil relationship acted organically each other. Even since Ryu Do-Won(柳道源) and Ryu Jang-Won who were famous scholars at generation just before JungJae, the origin of JungJae's lineage study continued to be developed following the process that pupils were produced at DaSan's school. Conclusionally, this fact means that this process give a decisive influence on him. Though it is hard to discuss fully JungJae‘s work collections and writings due to their huge scale, it could be confirmed that the characteristic of his work was practical from the fact that he focus on discussion via letter and sermon rather than rhetorical sentence and literary knowledge. His argument and theory showed that his study was mainly aimed at studyingthestudyofConfucianclassics[Confucianism](經學), Neo-Confucianism(性理學) and the study of courtesy[Ye-hak](禮學) and also, it was found that final goal of his study is JaeDo(載道). JungJae was great scholar as a successor of Toegye's school as well as a literary government officer in the 19th century. Finally, in further study, an overall review about ‘JungJae, Ryu Chi-Myeong’ is required to be systematically organized by making the individual analysis for the collection of works and writings and considering in detail the career as a government officer, the pedigree of scholarly lineage and its transmission to next generation.